Word: priceyness
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...shop in 1978 with a former girlfriend and $45,000 in capital and nurtured it into a FORTUNE 500 business that boasts 180 stores in North America and Britain. Its stock has soared from $4 to $145 in little more than a decade, and its sales of often pricey organic and ethically produced groceries pulled in $4.7 billion in its last fiscal year. All those profits, yet the company measures its performance by the value it creates for six stakeholders: its customers, its employees, its investors, its vendors, communities where it operates and the environments those operations affect...
Electronics retailers have a dirty little secret about those pricey HDTVs: the pristine pictures on showroom models that wow consumers aren't what they will be watching at home. That's because most TV content is still delivered in standard-definition format. Result: Seinfeld reruns will look worse on a new $2,500 HDTV...
Harvard is a pricey place, and for every bit of cash you spend you might have to pay up at the ATM. With fees as high as $2—enough to buy half a Toscanini vanilla latte—watch where you withdraw if you don’t have an account at the hosting bank. That is, unless you want to donate to the banks in holiday spirit...
...gift bag, always a staple of weddings and kids' parties, got a shot of steroids in 2001 when the Oscars started handing out bags of really pricey stuff to presenters. When the red carpet became a well-covered event unto itself, clothing and jewelry designers figured out that they got more attention by lending items to nominees than they did by paying for a prohibitively expensive Oscars commercial. Inadvertently, In Style magazine had created a black market for celebrities...
...hardly any of it actually reaches supermarkets. Much of it is stuffed into government surplus warehouses or passed on to other countries as food aid. Foreign rice that does reach store shelves is made so expensive by tariffs that it poses no threat to domestic rice?which is also pricey, because the average Japanese farm is small and production costs are high. Japanese consumers pay as much as 10 times more for their rice than Americans, according to Eric Wailes, a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Arkansas. If Japan allowed rice to be imported freely, Wailes estimates...